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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Stuart Roebuck <sr...@adolos.com> on 2000/11/28 13:27:20 UTC

Rename / Move Directories

With the deprecation of rename, it appears that there is no direct equivalent to

	<rename src="sourcedir" dest="destdir" />

where 'sourcedir' and 'destdir' are directories.

The current <move> replacement appears to be:

	<move todir="destdir">
      <fileset dir="sourcedir"/>
	</move>

but whereas the former command simply renamed the directory, the later copies every single item in the source directory to the destination directory and then deletes the source.  This is clearly a much more time consuming task for large directories - I have a 600Mb case at the moment!

Am I missing something?

Stuart.
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